Professor Russell Gray, The University of Auckland. Attempts to explain human behaviour in evolutionary terms have a mixed history. Today, crude social Darwinian and socio-biological explanations are increasingly being replaced by richer, more

Lecture 4 - The fossil record

Sep 14th, 2008 42m 29s

Professor Alan Cooper, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, The University of Adelaide. How should we interpret what the fossil record tells us about evolution - both in general, and with regard to how New Zealand has ended up as it is

Lecture 3 - The Principle of Evolution: Absolute Simplicity

Sep 7th, 2008 51m 31s

Professor David Penny CNZM FRSNZ, Research Director, Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Massey University. Can we find anything in biology that is not understandable, or not explainable, by the things we can observe and me

Lecture 2 - The Evolution of Biological Complexity

Aug 31st, 2008 51m 54s

Professor Paul Rainey FRSNZ, Massey University. Professor Rainey paints a picture of life's evolution from the perspective of major evolutionary transitions, including that from solitary organisms to societies. Recorded 28 July in New Plymouth.

Lecture 1 - Darwin and the Evolution of an Idea

Aug 24th, 2008 50m 45s

Professor Lloyd Spencer Davis, University of Otago. In the last 2000 years there has been one idea, above all else, that has altered the way we view the world and our place in it. That idea is evolution by natural selection and the originator o

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